GOOD GRIEF RETREATs

Facilitated by a multidisciplinary team of musicians and wellness practitioners, Good Grief Retreats brings together Canada’s top emerging talent and offers a rare pause in an industry that rarely slows down. It’s a space designed for reflection, regulation, and creative expansion.

Good Grief Retreats is a songwriting camp that integrates intentional wellness practices to help artists create from a grounded, real place.

Our philosophy is simple:
Artists make their most meaningful, career-defining work when they feel connected — to themselves, to their CREATIVE source, and to the community around them.

We believe great art begins with presence.
Good Grief Retreats creates an environment where artists can access clarity, authenticity, and flow by turning inward before they create outward.

we believe that

Making great art is about being open to receiving and being fearless in sharing.

We have cultivated a space where creatives can still their minds, sink into nature and experience the presence to be themselves.

No Ego. No Limitations. Just art.

DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE IN ONE WORD

Unified

• Inspiring

• Patient

• Hope

• Transformative

• Safe

• Rewarding

• Grounding

• Necessary

• Friendship

• Connection

• Fulfilling

• Accepting

• Joyful

• Dream it

• Unified • Inspiring • Patient • Hope • Transformative • Safe • Rewarding • Grounding • Necessary • Friendship • Connection • Fulfilling • Accepting • Joyful • Dream it •

What People Are Saying

"My experience at Good Grief Retreats 2023 remains one of the most beautiful weeks of my life to date. Never would I ever have been able to touch such a deep part of myself creatively or to be so vulnerable with those around me without such a lovingly cultivated atmosphere. A truly groundbreaking endeavour that I believe is the future for allowing authentic and grounded artistry to thrive in an increasingly unnatural and difficult industry for creatives.”

— Ryland James

“To be honest, I didn't know what to expect heading into my first Good Grief Retreat. I have participated in thousands of songwriting sessions and dozens of songwriting camps, and typically they all follow the same pattern. GGR was its own beautiful experience that I can confidently say revitalized my curiosity about what it takes to get the best out of a songwriter.

It felt like a complex experience, but to put it simply, Bryn and Kirstyn created an intentional space with types of support and guidance you almost don't know you need until you receive it. From the various therapies to the actual intentional songwriting sessions and all the things in between that make it run so smoothly, it was a chance to just be a songwriter and purely nourish that part of yourself.”